The Resource Scrutinized! : surveillance in Asian North American literature, Monica Chiu
Scrutinized! : surveillance in Asian North American literature, Monica Chiu
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- Summary
- Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field, Don Lee's Country of Origin, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Susan Choi's A Person of Interest. These and a host of other Asian North American detection and mystery titles were published between 1995 and 2010. Together they reference more than a decade of Asian North America monitoring that includes internment, campaign financing, espionage, and post-9/11 surveillance. However, these works are less concerned with solving crimes than with creating literary responses to the subtle but persistent surveillance of raced subjects. In Scrutinized! Monica Chiu reveals how Asian North American novels' fascination with mystery, detection, spying, and surveillance is a literary response to anxieties over race. According to Chiu, this allegiance to a genre that takes interruptions to social norms as its foundation speaks to a state of unease at a time of racial scrutiny. Scrutinized! is broadly about oversight and insight. The race policing of the past has been subsumed under post-racism--an oversight (in the popular nomenclature of race blindness) that is still, ironically, based on a persistent visual construction of race. Detective fiction's focus on scrutiny presents itself as the most appropriate genre for revealing the failures of a so-called post-racialism in which we continue to deploy visually defined categories of race as social realities--a regulatory mechanism under which Asian North Americans live the paradox of being inscrutable. To be looked at and overlooked is the contradiction that drives the book's thesis. Readers first revisit Oriental visions, or Asian stereotypes, and then encounter official documentation on major events, such as the Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment. The former visions, which endure, and the latter documents, diplomatically forgotten, shape how Asian subjects were and are scrutinized and to what effect. They determine which surveillance images remain emblazoned in a nation's collective memory and which face political burial. The book goes on to provide a compelling analysis of mystery and detective fiction by Lee, Nina Revoyr, Choi, Suki Kim, Sakamoto, and Hamid, whose work exploits the genre's techniques to highlight pervasive vigilance among Asian North American subjects
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 177 pages)
- Contents
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- Introduction: under scrutiny
- Racial playgrounds: illusion and danger in Don Lee's Country of origin
- The conspicuous subjects of interracial spaces in Nina Revoyr's Southland
- Persistent vigilance and racial longing in Choi's Person of interest and Kim's The interpreter
- Intimate details: scrutiny and evidentiary photographs in Kerri Sakamoto's The electrical field
- Double surveillance in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780824838430
- Label
- Scrutinized! : surveillance in Asian North American literature
- Title
- Scrutinized!
- Title remainder
- surveillance in Asian North American literature
- Statement of responsibility
- Monica Chiu
- Subject
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- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Asiaten
- Canadian fiction -- Asian American authors | History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories, Canadian
- Detective and mystery stories, Canadian -- History and criticism
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Kanada
- Kriminalroman
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | Asian American
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- USA
- Überwachung
- American fiction -- Asian American authors
- American fiction -- Asian American authors | History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field, Don Lee's Country of Origin, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Susan Choi's A Person of Interest. These and a host of other Asian North American detection and mystery titles were published between 1995 and 2010. Together they reference more than a decade of Asian North America monitoring that includes internment, campaign financing, espionage, and post-9/11 surveillance. However, these works are less concerned with solving crimes than with creating literary responses to the subtle but persistent surveillance of raced subjects. In Scrutinized! Monica Chiu reveals how Asian North American novels' fascination with mystery, detection, spying, and surveillance is a literary response to anxieties over race. According to Chiu, this allegiance to a genre that takes interruptions to social norms as its foundation speaks to a state of unease at a time of racial scrutiny. Scrutinized! is broadly about oversight and insight. The race policing of the past has been subsumed under post-racism--an oversight (in the popular nomenclature of race blindness) that is still, ironically, based on a persistent visual construction of race. Detective fiction's focus on scrutiny presents itself as the most appropriate genre for revealing the failures of a so-called post-racialism in which we continue to deploy visually defined categories of race as social realities--a regulatory mechanism under which Asian North Americans live the paradox of being inscrutable. To be looked at and overlooked is the contradiction that drives the book's thesis. Readers first revisit Oriental visions, or Asian stereotypes, and then encounter official documentation on major events, such as the Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment. The former visions, which endure, and the latter documents, diplomatically forgotten, shape how Asian subjects were and are scrutinized and to what effect. They determine which surveillance images remain emblazoned in a nation's collective memory and which face political burial. The book goes on to provide a compelling analysis of mystery and detective fiction by Lee, Nina Revoyr, Choi, Suki Kim, Sakamoto, and Hamid, whose work exploits the genre's techniques to highlight pervasive vigilance among Asian North American subjects
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- digitized
- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chiu, Monica
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Intersections : Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American fiction
- Canadian fiction
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Detective and mystery stories, Canadian
- Race in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American fiction
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Detective and mystery stories, Canadian
- Race in literature
- Kriminalroman
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Asiaten
- Überwachung
- USA
- Kanada
- Label
- Scrutinized! : surveillance in Asian North American literature, Monica Chiu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: under scrutiny -- Racial playgrounds: illusion and danger in Don Lee's Country of origin -- The conspicuous subjects of interracial spaces in Nina Revoyr's Southland -- Persistent vigilance and racial longing in Choi's Person of interest and Kim's The interpreter -- Intimate details: scrutiny and evidentiary photographs in Kerri Sakamoto's The electrical field -- Double surveillance in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist -- Conclusion
- Control code
- ocn878078710
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 177 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824838430
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.21313/9780824838430
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62cwq3
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)878078710
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Scrutinized! : surveillance in Asian North American literature, Monica Chiu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: under scrutiny -- Racial playgrounds: illusion and danger in Don Lee's Country of origin -- The conspicuous subjects of interracial spaces in Nina Revoyr's Southland -- Persistent vigilance and racial longing in Choi's Person of interest and Kim's The interpreter -- Intimate details: scrutiny and evidentiary photographs in Kerri Sakamoto's The electrical field -- Double surveillance in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist -- Conclusion
- Control code
- ocn878078710
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 177 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824838430
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.21313/9780824838430
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62cwq3
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)878078710
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Asiaten
- Canadian fiction -- Asian American authors | History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories, Canadian
- Detective and mystery stories, Canadian -- History and criticism
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Kanada
- Kriminalroman
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | Asian American
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- USA
- Überwachung
- American fiction -- Asian American authors
- American fiction -- Asian American authors | History and criticism
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